Opti sues Apple

A Silicon Valley company is suing Apple for using its patented technology in Macs

by
Robert Mullins| 19 Jan 07

A Silicon Valley company is suing Apple for using its patented technology in Macs.

OPTi Inc filed suit in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas on 16 January, alleging that Apple violates three OPTi patents on what it calls "'Predictive Snooping of Cache Memory for Master-Initiated Accesses".

OPTi says Apple uses its patented predictive snooping technology without permission in its desktop, notebook and server computers and has asked for a jury trial to settle the dispute.